English physician and pediatrician (1839-1911) who presented the first modern definition of celiac disease, and theorized the importance of diet in its control. ALS, one page, 4 x 6.25, personal letterhead, July 25, 1883. Letter to "Dr. Allchin," in part: "I returned Garencieres this afternoon. I am glad I have seen it, for the book (which is wanting in any sign of merit) does not relate to rickets at all, but to a kind of pulmonary consumption, which the vague description does not enable me to identify." In fine condition. Dr. Gee was evidently evaluating a work by the 17th-century apothecary Theophilus de Garencières, who claimed to have developed a secret cure for the Black Plague was the first to translate the prophecies of Nostradamus into English.
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